Only 20 per cent of sexual assault victims go to the hospital to get a medical examination within 24 hours of the incident, according to a study.

The department of obstetrics and gynaecology of  Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital, commonly known as Sion hospital, arrived at this figure after analysing data pertaining to 130 sexual assault cases examined at the tertiary care centre between January 2014 and July 2022. According to the study, the pregnancy rate in these cases is around 16.15 per cent. Also, most of these were teenage pregnancies.